What's new in HeadHonta.
Product updates, new features, and improvements — released as we ship.
Meet the HeadHonta AI Assistant
Your pipeline now talks back. This release puts an agentic AI assistant inside the app, makes candidate matching dramatically smarter, and adds LinkedIn sign-in across the product.
In-app AI Assistant
Ask questions about your pipeline in plain language — "who applied this week?", "compare my top candidates for the design role" — and get live answers with interactive tables and charts. The assistant can also take actions for you. Available on Professional and above.
Smarter AI candidate matching
Matching now combines semantic retrieval with deep AI scoring, so recommendations come from your whole talent pool — and only genuine fits are surfaced. Matching runs in the background, so large pools no longer time out.
Sign in with LinkedIn
One-click LinkedIn sign-in for the web app, alongside email and password.
Self-serve Chrome extension
Paid plans can now download the sourcing extension directly from the app and sign in with LinkedIn — no waiting on a manual install link.
Two-factor authentication
Protect your account with authenticator-app 2FA, configurable from your security settings.
Security audit hardening
A full external-style audit pass: stricter webhook signature checks, pinned token algorithms, hardened file uploads, and tightened tenant isolation across candidate and matching APIs.
Annual billing, job board auto-posting, and guided onboarding
Commit for a year and save, let HeadHonta post your roles for you, and get new teammates productive faster with a guided start.
Annual plans — 2 months free
Pay yearly and get two months free on any paid plan. Subscriptions can now also be cancelled self-serve, no support ticket needed.
Job board auto-posting
Connect your job board accounts once and HeadHonta publishes new roles for you automatically. Available on paid plans, with per-board controls in settings.
Getting-started checklist and walkthrough
New workspaces get a guided checklist and a how-it-works walkthrough — and you can relaunch it anytime from the help menu.
Clearer plan and renewal lifecycle
See exactly when your plan expires, get timely renewal reminders by email, and hit clear in-app prompts (instead of dead ends) when you reach a plan limit.
New payments provider
Billing now runs on Paystack for more reliable card payments and local-currency charging.
GDPR and data protection upgrades
Personal data is now encrypted at rest, email verification is required before accessing workspace data, and new data-protection and AI-terms pages spell out exactly how we handle your information.
Free CV Review and sign-in security
A free, public CV review tool anyone can use — plus one-time-code verification and a string of quality-of-life upgrades across jobs, matching, and team management.
Free CV Review tool
Anyone can upload a CV at headhonta.com/cv-review and get a detailed ATS-style analysis with a downloadable PDF report — no account required. Candidates can opt in to join the talent pool from their results.
One-time-code verification on signup and login
Signup and login are now verified with a one-time email code, with a live password-requirements checklist as you type.
Screening answers feed AI match scores
AI matching now factors each candidate's screening-question answers into the match score, not just their CV.
Richer salary ranges
Job salary ranges now specify pay period (annual, monthly, hourly) and whether figures are gross or net.
Rejection emails with reasons
Rejection emails can include the reason, with AI-polished wording and automatic routing through your rejection stage automations.
Safer team invitations
Invites to users who already belong to another organisation are now blocked with a clear message, and the invitation flow got a general hardening pass.
Talent pool, candidate portal, and outbound sequences
A big release focused on building a candidate relationship layer on top of the pipeline — keep great applicants warm, re-engage past candidates, and run multi-step outreach without leaving HeadHonta.
Talent Pool
Save promising candidates to a searchable, taggable pool. Filter by skills, source, and stage history so a 'no for now' becomes 'yes for the next role.'
Outbound Sequences
Build multi-step email sequences with templates and variables, schedule sends, and track open/reply rates per candidate. Pause and resume per-candidate or per-step.
Candidate Portal
Branded portal where applicants can sign in, see their application status across roles, and update their profile. One link, no account-juggling.
Bulk Candidate Import
Import existing candidates from CSV with column mapping, dedup by email, and per-row error reporting. Backfill historical pipeline data in one go.
Skill Taxonomy
Standardised skills across CVs and job specs with autocomplete-driven tagging, alias matching (e.g. 'JS' → 'JavaScript'), and richer skill-based filtering.
Recruitment Analytics
Hiring funnel views — source quality, stage conversion, time-in-stage, and team activity — with date-range filters and exportable reports.
Public Developer API
Build HeadHonta into your own tools. A first-class REST API with live docs, scoped keys, and stable pagination.
REST API for jobs, candidates, and pipeline
Push jobs from your ATS, query candidates at any pipeline stage, and move applications programmatically — with cursor-based pagination and scoped API keys.
Interactive API documentation
Live, interactive docs at /api/docs so you can try endpoints with your own key directly from the browser.
Public developers landing page
A new /developers page with copy-pasteable curl examples, auth guidance, and rate-limit info.
Offer decisions and a richer candidate flow
Candidate-facing offer decision page
Candidates can review HR-defined compensation, accept or reject offers, and trigger linked legal documents in one branded flow.
Pipeline-stage legal document auto-generation
Automatically generate offer letters, NDAs, and contracts when a candidate hits configured pipeline stages.
Public job application page
A mobile-first apply page with CV upload and screening question support that anyone can use without an account.
Screening questions on job applications
Add custom yes/no, multi-choice, or text screening questions per role, surfaced on the public apply page and the candidate profile.
Interview scheduling and Slack notifications
Interview scheduling with calendar invites
Schedule interviews in-product, send candidates ICS calendar invites, and surface a scheduling dialog automatically when you drag a candidate to a scheduling-enabled stage.
Slack notifications
Wire HeadHonta into your team's Slack channels — get notified on new applications, stage moves, and newly created jobs.
Settings redesign and pipeline polish
Settings rebuilt with sidebar navigation
A new sidebar layout makes growing settings categories easy to scan and faster to navigate.
Refreshed empty states and confirmations
Polished empty states across the app and clearer confirmation dialogs on destructive actions.
One-click candidate reject
Reject moves candidates straight to your configured terminal stage and triggers any rejection automations.